Cinder tongs



Feb. 19 1924,

. WITNESS:

1,484,100 J. c. WERTZ CINDER TONGS I Filed Nov. 1, 1920 Z0 INVENTOR ATTORNEY,

Patented Feb. 19, 1924.

warren stares JAMES C. WEBTZ, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

omens. TONGS. Y El AppIication filed. November 1, 1920. Serial No. 420,949.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES C. Wnn'rz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cinder Tongs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in 19 cinder tongs.

The object of my invention is to provide tongs for extracting cinders from a stove or furnace, which are cheap to make, which are strong and durable, and with which large cinders may be readily grasped and easily removed through a small feed door and without danger of burning the hands.

The novel features of my invention, are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

2 In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the preferred embodiment'of my invention,

Fig. l is a perspective view of my improved cinder tongs, shown in the open position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, shown in the closed position.

Similar reference characters designate 7 similar parts in the different views.

1 and 2 designate respectively, two arms which are pivoted to each other, by a pivot pin 3.

Each of the arms 1 and 2 is provided with spaced apart curved claws 4, convex on its outer side and concaveon its inner side and each adapted tooo-operate with the claws of the other arm for embracing a cinder, and in the closed position contacting only at their outer ends with the claws of the other 4.0 arm,whereby the ends of the claws can enter the interstices of a cinder so as to firmly hold the same.

5 and 6 designate respectively, two hen-- dles, pivoted to each other by a pin 7, and respectively pivoted at their inner ends by pins 8 and 9 to the outer ends of the arms 1 and 2.

For normally forcing the outer ends of the handles 5 and 6 away from each other,

any suitable sort of spring may be employed, as, for example, a U-shaped spring 10, the arms of which. bear respectively against the inner sides of the handles 5 and 6, at the outer side of the pivot pin 7. For holding the spring 10 in the operative position, one of its arms may be tightly fitted in a transverse facing groove 11, provided on the inner side of the handle 6.

The distance between the pivot pin 7 and the pins 8 or 9, is, preferably, substantially equal to the distance between the pin 3 and the pins 8 or 9. This construction permits the claws 4, to be swung to the fully open position without having to swing the outer ends of the handles 5 and 6 as far apart as would be the case with tongs having arms corresponding in length to the combined length of the arm 1 and handle 5.

With the construction shown, the handles may be long enough to keep the hands which operate them, distant from the fire and at the same time permit the claws 4:, to open wide enough to embrace a large cinder, when the tongs are extended through a relatively narrow feed door of a furnace or stove. '75 Ordinary tongs having crossed handles of a length corresponding to my improved tongs, would require the outer ends of the handles tobe swung further apart, than would be the case with my improved construction, in order to have the clawsfopen to any predetermined distance apart. For this reason, my improved tongs can be readily operated through relatively small openings, through which the ordinary crossed arm tongs'of like length would not be successfully used Q in grasping a cinder. I 7 By having the distance between the pivot point of the handles with the arms and the pivot point of the arms'with each other substantially equal to the distance between the pivot point of the handles with the arms and the pivot point of the handles with each other, no multiplication or reduction of le' verage is effected over a simple lever conv struction. I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as modifications,

Within the scope of the appended claim, may be made Without departing from the spirit of my invention. 1

What I claim is:

In cinder tongs, two arms pivoted to each other, each arm having spaced apart inwardly curved claws, two handles respectively pivoted to said arms and pivoted to each other, one of the handles on its inner side having a transverse groove, and a U- shaped spring having one of its arms tightiy fitted in said groove and having its other arm bearing against the inner side of the other handle.

In testimony whereof 1 have signed my name to this specification.

JAMES C; WERTZ. 

